Cook Lab

Mishra M, Zelhof A, Cook TA. 800 Facets of Retinal Degeneration. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 100:331-68. 2011.

Johnston R, Otake Y, Sood P, McDonald EC, Xie B, Vogt N, Kussell E, Gebelein B, Cook TA, Nagakoshi H, Desplan C. Interlocked feedforward loops control cell-type-specific Rhodopsin expression in the Drosophila eye. Cell. 145:956-68. 2011.

McDonald EC, Workman M, Reischl J, Wimmer E, Gebelein B, Cook TA. Separable transcriptional regulatory domains within Otd control photoreceptor terminal differentiation events. Dev Biol. 347:122-32. 2010.

Phelan JD, Shroyer NF, Cook TA, Gebelein B, Grimes HL. Gfi1- Cells & Circuits: Unraveling transcriptional networks of development and disease. Current Topics in Hematology. 17:300-7. 2010.

Mishra M, Oke A, Lebel C, McDonald EC, Plummer  Z, Cook TA, Zelhof AC. Pph13 and orthodenticle define a dual regulatory pathway for photoreceptor cell morphogenesis and function. Development. 137:2895-904. 2010.

Mazzoni EO, Celik A, Wernet MW, Vasiliauskas D, Cook TA, Johnston RJ, Pichaud F, Desplan C. Iroquois complex genes induce co-expression of rhodopsins in Drosophila. PLoS Biology. 6(4):e97. 2008.

Ranade SS, Yang-Zhou D, Kong SW, McDonald EC, Cook TA, Pignoni F. Analysis of the Otd-dependent transcriptome supports the evolutionary conservation of CRX/OTX/OTD functions in flies and vertebrates. Dev Biol. 315(2):521-34. 2008.

Xie B, Charlton-Perkins M, McDonald EC, Gebelein B, Cook TA. Senseless functions as a molecular switch for color photoreceptor differentiation in Drosophila. Development. 134:4243-4253. 2007.

Cook T. Cell diversity in the retina: More than meets the eye. Bioessays. 25:921-925. 2003.

Tahayato A, Sonneville R, Pichaud F, Papatsenko D, Beaufils P, Wernet M, Cook T, Desplan C. Otd/Crx, a dual regulator for the specification of ommatidia subtypes in the Drosophila retina. Dev Cell. 5:391-402. 2003.

Cook T, Pichaud F, Sonneville R, Papatsenko D, Desplan C. Distinction between color photoreceptor cell fates is controlled by Prospero in Drosophila. Dev Cell. 4:853-64. 2003.

Cook T, Desplan C. Photoreceptor subtype specification: from flies to humans. Sem Cell Dev Biol. 12:509-18. 2001.

Charlton-Perkins M, Brown NL, Cook TA. The lens in focus:  A comparison of lens development in Drosophila and vertebrates.  Molec Genet Genom. 2011.

Charlton-Perkins M, Whitaker SL, Fei Y, Gebelein B, Cook TA. Prospero and Pax2 combinatorially control neural cell fate decisions by modulating EGF and Notch-dependent signaling.  Neural Dev. 2011.

Charlton-Perkins M, Cook TA. Building a fly eye:  terminal differentiation events of the retina, corneal lens, and pigmented epithelia. Curr Top Dev Biol. 93:129-73. 2010.

Lomberk G, Imoto I, Gebelein B, Urrutia R, Cook TA. Conservation of the TGFbeta/Labial homeobox signaling loop in endoderm-derived cells between Drosophila and mammals. Pancreatology. 10:74-84. 2010.

Rajkumar P, Cook TA, Rollmann S, Layne JL. Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. J Exp Biol. 213:4240-8. 2010.

Maksimovic S, Cook TA, Buschbeck E. Spatial distribution of opsin-encoding mRNAs in the tiered larval retinas of the sunburst diving beetle Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). J Exp Biol. 212:3781-94. 2009.

Jackowska M, Bao R, Liu Z, McDonald EC, Cook TA, Friedrich M. Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. BMC Frontiers in Zoology 4:24. 2007.